Armed federal agents deployed last week to northeast Clark County, Nev.,
for what can only be described as a major escalation in a decades-long
standoff between a local cattle rancher and the U.S. government.

Protesters
have been gathering over the past few days in support of the Bundy's.
The video shows an incident that happened earlier today where agents
throw a woman to the ground and at least one man is shot with a tazer
several times after the protesters respond to the assault.

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"Basically this guy's family has been grazing this plot of land since the 1870's. In the 1980's the Feds changed the laws and told him he could no longer graze on that land because an endangered turtle lived there, BUT if he paid them money he could continue to graze his cattle there because fuck that turtle. He told them to fuck off and kept grazing his cattle there, and has been in and out of court for it over the years. However, now we are experiencing a massive cattle shortage in this cMore..ountry and the price of beef is skyrocketing, and the feds want to control who gets meat and at what price, so they're confiscating his cattle.

The local community is coming together to support him, a is the Nevada governor. Some goofball ass "Nevada Militia" is getting involved too. People are afraid we may be setting up for a 21st century Ruby Ridge or Waco. Furthermore, the Feds may actually WANT to instigate some crazy shit like that so they can use this whole incident as a pretext to seize financial assets and firearms if shit goes to fuck."Less..

Posted Apr-10-2014 By

MuffinTop

@MuffinTop Dusty was the only one who explained this confusing situation, and you're giving him shit on tortoise vs. turtle and calling him emotional? I was glad for the clarity. No one, and I mean no one on LL gives a fuck about the turtle distinction.

Posted Apr-10-2014 By

Binprince

Do a little research on this guy. The BLM came in with a swat team, snipers and a helicopter to confiscate fucking cows. Shit is ready to explode there. The guy's family has been grazing that land since the 1880's and the feds recently made the land protected status. Just one more example of heavy handed tactics being used by the feds to shit on the little guy.

Posted Apr-10-2014 By

BoonieRat718

Posted Apr-10-2014 By

larryparamedic

@BoonieRat718
To further add, the people of the state of Nevada once owned the land until the federal government came in and illegally seized it, they then extorted money from the locals to use their own land.

Posted Apr-10-2014 By

Genocide4Society

“I have had people ask me to explain my dad’s stance on this BLM fight. Here it is in as simple of terms as I can explain it. There is so much to it, but here it s in a nut shell. My great grandpa bought the rights to the Bunkerville allotment back in 1887 around there. Then he sold them to my grandpa who then turned them over to my dad in 1972. These men bought and paid for their rights to the range and also built waters, fences and roads to assure the survival of their cattle, all with their own money, nMore..ot with tax dollars.

The rights to the land use are called preemptive rights. Some where down the line, to keep the cows from over grazing, came the Bureau of Land Management. They were supposed to assist the ranchers in the management of their ranges while the ranchers paid a yearly allotment which was to be use to pay the BLM wages and to help with repairs and improvements of the ranches. My dad did pay his grazing fees for years to the BLM until they were no longer using his fees to help him and to improve. Instead they began using these monies against the ranchers. They bought all the rest of the ranchers in the area out with they’re own grazing fees. When they offered to buy my dad out for a penance he said no thanks and then fired them because they weren’t doing their job. He quit paying the BLM and tried giving his grazing fees to the county, which they turned down.

So my dad just went on running his ranch and making his own improvements with his own equipment and his own money, not taxes. In essence the BLM was managing my dad out of business. Well when buying him out didn’t work, they used the endangered species card. You’ve already heard about the desert tortoise. Well that didn’t work either, so then began the threats and the court orders, which my dad has proven to be unlawful for all these years. Now they’re desperate. It’s come down to buying the brand inspector off and threatening the County Sheriff. Everything their doing at this point is illegal and totally against the Constitution of the United States of America. Then there’s the issue of the cattle that are at this moment being stolen. See even if dad hasn’t paid them, those cattle belong to him, regardless of where they are they are my father’s property. His herd has been part of that range for over a hundred years, long before the BLM even existed.

Posted Apr-10-2014 By

daimyo21

Fuck it, I'm clicking to the next video. Look, if you want others to invest themselves into your cause, you need to do the work to get me there. I'm not sifting through your garbage mess of a description. Too bad for your wasted opportunity.

Posted Apr-10-2014 By

Roosterthegoat

@Bobaslaw Ignorant and lazy people like you are why we will continue to loose ground. It took me 1 Google search to find out the full story, but seeing you wont even do that, you're no use to the cause anyway. Kill yourself.

Posted Apr-10-2014 By

smartarse

"The BLM and the National Park Service have closed off public access to almost 600,000 acres of federal land for the roundup.

Bundy considers much of that public land to use as he sees fit, but the BLM canceled his federal grazing permit 20 years ago after the rancher refused to accept new land-use rules for protecting the threatened desert tortoise and stopped paying his fees."

honeyball_lecter

Posted Apr-10-2014 By

Spazcat AU

@Connasseur Don't let the drama queens detract from the seriousness of what is going on here. Imagine if it was your livelyhood that was at stake. This is about lives being destroyed by government overeach.

Posted Apr-10-2014 By

AntiGayAtheist

this might sound rude, it isn't meant to be. Advice to the protestors: don't bring bs stuff into it. The lady's cancer and the fact she has kids are irrelevant. Her scuffed knees are unfortunate, but not the story. Stay on message--it took a guy named Dusty explaining everything in the comment thread to even piece through this. Save your 911 calls for when someone truly gets hurt or you'll end up looking like the equivalent of a basketball or soccer player taking a dive or flopping.

ReMore..written land-use laws and eminent domain are such galling bullshit, it must be tremendously frustrating. Stay on message, and good luck.Less..

Posted Apr-9-2014 By

jum_runky

You will learn the public land belongs to the state of Nevada, not the US government.

His family and that ranch, (the last ranch in Nevada, btw), has been grazing on that land for over 100 years, and the federal government is asserting this supposed authority over land it does not own in the name of protecting tortoises.

Posted Apr-9-2014 By

jum_runky

@buffmuffin - grazing on that land is NOT the same as owning it. Sorry. And all ranchers that graze on BLM land must pay grazing fees. He owes a million dollars in fees, and has been illegally grazing for twenty years. They are using the tortoise issue because they havent been able to get him to pay or get his cattle off the land. First Causes. Research them.

Posted Apr-9-2014 By

sheixhundt

@jum_runky
The land just became "protected land" a few years ago. They've been running their cattle here for decades. Every other rancher has been put out of business because of this. He's one of the last and he just refused to comply. The only choice he has is to shut down like the rest. The same thing happened to my family in AZ.

Posted Apr-10-2014 By

MuffinTop

Bundy had the right to graze on the land until 1993 because he paid the fees.

He quit paying the BLM fees in 1993, and lost his right to graze on the land, the BLM has been dealing with him for decades trying to peacefully get him to comply with the law, but Bundy feels the law does not apply to him.

Bundy is stealing from all of us. In addition to the $300,000 he owes the US taxpayers for use of the land since 1993, he has cost us another $1million, in efforts to remove More..his cattle from public lands.

This has nothing to do with anyones Constitutional Rights, it is only about one man, or one family that feels like the law does not apply to him.

Do you object of your neighbor allows their dog to "graze" on your property, just because he did it before you moved in?

Bundy does not own the land, he is stealing from the American taxpayers.Less..

Posted Apr-10-2014 By

Juror No 8

Comment of user 'dominatus84' has been deleted by author (after account deletion)!

@dominatus84 but she is in the front exactly because she is pregnant... The logic being: If we put pregnant women and women with cancer *sigh* in the front, the police won't be abled to push us around because of fear of bad publicity. Backfired..

Posted Apr-10-2014 By

Connasseur

@Connasseur Which is the same thing Islamic extremist do and we condemn them for it: human shields. And I am willing to bet that all of these protesters are far right wing dropouts that adore the tea party movement.....and hate the Islamic fundamentalist habit of using human shields....Go fucking figure.

Posted Apr-10-2014 By

Oliver Hardy

"The BLM and the National Park Service have closed off public access to almost 600,000 acres of federal land for the roundup.

Bundy considers much of that public land to use as he sees fit, but the BLM canceled his federal grazing permit 20 years ago after the rancher refused to accept new land-use rules for protecting the threatened desert tortoise and stopped paying his fees."

Posted Apr-10-2014 By

Anarchie

Whoever wrote the text has the education of a seven year old. Hard to take seriously. Emotional regurgitation. And they made it sound like the cops who threw the woman down knew that she had cancer (even though she admitted she was cancer free for two years). Simplistic play for emotional support.....she did not have cancer and her health status had nothing to do with this. Now call 911 for skinned knees. This is grandstanding at its finest. Battle it out in a court of law where there are educatMore..ed mediators, not knee-jerk, unhinged morons.

And I really dislike the police by the way. But this crowd came from a very small and polluted gene pool.Less..

Posted Apr-10-2014 By

tperk

Unreadable video description. I didn't even watch it now. If the description makes no sense at all and appears to be written by someone high on mushrooms and smoking grass, the video can't be worth my time anyway.

Posted Apr-10-2014 By

YourUncle

Hard to tell who is responsible for what bad action here. But I will say that I have a problem with the federal government telling the people that you can only exercise your right to free speech within this confined area that we have conveniently made for you down the road. What a crock of shit.

Posted Apr-10-2014 By

mcattack

Let me see if I get this straight. So in the bundy family, going by this video I have learned that the grown men cry like babies and video tape while the women with cancer and are pregnant with children battle with the Feds, then cry victim? They need a water cannon that squirts mace for this crowd.

Did anyone think of deploying the "race card"...

Posted Apr-10-2014 By

irebukeu

Posted Apr-10-2014 By

planestrainsautomobiles

@planestrainsautomobiles anyone who disagrees with this girl gets insulted... hmmmmmmmmm you go there bitch.. I make 6 figures a year and live very comfortably. Come in here for a good laugh at the fucktards such as yourself who seem to struggle with angst and hate every single day .. Makes me laugh even harder.. You are my entertainment and it doesn't cost a cent

Posted Apr-10-2014 By

Jack Smith

@Jack Smith
-You're STILL obfuscating Princess ;-)
-Why don't you take your claimed intelligence, your claimed income, your claimed superiority and cite where in the constitution (or enumerated powers) that states rights can be violated by the federal government and that the federal government can own such land not for military purposes.

Posted Apr-10-2014 By

Gugger

The bundy's have ranched this land with cattle in nevada for many generations. They Have the old old deeds to the land for the right to do so and are one of the last nevada cattle ranchers but as the new times have come the blm is reclaiming land that the bundys own with new legislature. The bundy's refuse to acknowledge the new legislature and land reclaiming of the blm and continue to graze their cattle on the land that is More..now blm land which requires a special permit that they refuse to acquire because it costs a lot more to graze on blm land that they believe is still their land. they have been doing this for nearly 25 years and owe the government over a million dollars for grazing on the "governments" land. The blm came in and took about 500+ head of cattle by force one day and arrested one of the Bundy sons for attempting to impede the blm from confiscating his cattle. So now the Bundy family and many people of the nearby communities are gathering and fighting the blm for what they feel is unlawful seizure of their property as well as unlawful arrest. Because the Bundy's and followers refuse to allow the gov and blm to push them around and the blm is still pushing back with force, the Bundy's are beginning to fear they are going to be involved in a "waco" type incident.Less..

Posted Apr-10-2014 By

LordThor

@sacredgeometry
"Except that not how it fucking works. "Grazing rights" are not a "right", they are a privilege. This cunt of a rancher felt that paying $1.35 / AMU is just too fucking much. The sad part is, his family was in the favorable position of having the permit for 150 cattle, a permit whose resale value was far more than the $1.35 / AMU charged on BLM lands (a number which is well below the private going rate per AMU). He could have abided by the rules, but nMore..o, fuck the rules right?
Instead, he illegally grazed 750 head of cattle on that land, resulting in a degradation of the land, reducing the fitness of countless creatures, some of which are endangered, and are protected through the ESA of 1973. Instead of being a raging douchebag, he could have sold his ranch and permit for 150 AMUs for quite a profit, since Federal permits are rarely created these days.
Ranching and permits are a testy issue, but if you really want to have this debate, by all means say so. Only here's a fair warning: these ranchers are greedy little entitled pricks who have made a fortune off the goodwill of the American public. They pay a ridiculously low rate for grazing on Federal lands, and then bitch when restrictions are placed on them. If they are so god damned special, how bout they go pay for access to private land and quit their fucking bitching.
I have literally no fucking sympathy for the mess that ranchers who graze on Federal land have created for themselves."Less..

Posted Apr-10-2014 By

Alexander Jacob Rogers

Been a court battle since 1998. Bureau of land management trying to get 1 rancher to pay 1 million dollar fine because his cattle grazed on government land. This past weekend they took 134 head of cattle from the rancher. Only news covering this is Fox. Guy was on Hannity last night and he promised the Feds a range war.

hortex

Posted Apr-10-2014 By

cutiepiepudski

@cutiepiepudski Well it's ONLY the largest empire ever, in the history of the fucking world. Is that a good enough measurement? Largest, most powerful government ever to exist in history? Probably not - Judging by your previous comments.

Posted Apr-10-2014 By

pxlfoo

The US is the foremost military and economic power. An Empire is something completely different. In modern history, the British had the world's biggest empire. I would have to research whether it was the biggest ever; not sure.